Sentences with phrase «standard first line treatment»

«Standard first line treatment consists of surgical resection followed by radiation and concomitant and adjuvant temozolomide therapy.

It is the first time a therapy has improved progression - free survival over the current standard first line treatment with platinum - based doublet chemotherapy.»

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The results from the Cancer Research UK - funded STAMPEDE trial could change the standard of care for men with prostate cancer, making abiraterone a first - line treatment alongside hormone therapy.

Paclitaxel and another chemotherapy drug, carboplatin, are considered standard, first - line treatments for advanced ovarian cancer, experts say, and most patients respond to the drugs initially.

«All endpoints of efficacy and tolerability favoured treatment with pembrolizumab, suggesting it should become one standard of care for first line treatment of patients with advanced NSCLC and high PD - L1 expression.

The treatment arm received palbociclib together with standard of care for this population, fulvestrant, a drug that blocks the hormone receptor via a different mechanism than first - line therapies.

All patients received standard first - line treatment of FOLFIRI plus cetuximab until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity, as previously reported (Ciardiello et al, Annals of Oncology 2014).

The strong response to this new use of enzalutamide shows that it can provide a viable, less toxic alternative to chemotherapy in staving off the disease in men who aren't responding to standard first line hormonal treatments,» said Tomasz Beer, M.D., the lead author on the study and deputy director of the Knight Cancer Institute at OHSU.

The standard first - line therapy treatment involves chemotherapy, and currently there is no approved second - line therapy.

Some patients are resistant to treatment with the anti-anxiety drug diazepam (Valium), a standard first - line treatment for such poisoning, and its effectiveness decreases the longer the seizure lasts.

Evidence - based therapy uses the gold - standard, first - line treatments in the field for anxiety and related disorders.The techniques used are designed to get you the results you want in an efficient manner.